By Abe Vandenberg
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Quiet as it's kept inside the United States, the Cuban revolution has achieved some phenomenal goals, reclaiming Cuba's agriculture, advancing its literacy rate to nearly 100 percent - and remaking its medical system. Cuba has transformed its health care to the extent that this "third-world" country has been able to maintain a first-world medical system, whose health indicators surpass those of the United States at a fraction of the cost.
Don Fitz combines his deep knowledge of Cuban history with his decades of on-the-ground experience in Cuba to bring us the story of how Cuba's health care system evolved and how Cuba is tackling the daunting challenges to its revolution in this century.
BOOK: Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution by Don Fitz (author), https://www.amazon.com.au/Cuban-Health-Care-Ongoing-Revolution/dp/1583678611
Buena Vista Social Club - Chan Chan (Official Audio), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5cELP06Mik
Invention Secrecy Still Going Strong, https://fas.org/secrecy/2010/10/invention_secrecy_2010/
The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe, https://www.amazon.com/Field-Quest-Secret-Force-Universe/dp/006143518X
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Our inner cave-dweller within modern society, power structures, tv-series/movie fandoms, and evolutionary psychology. We also get into the power of large, calm groups of people gathering for a shared purpose.
Penny on Twitter: @fakecongirl, https://www.cavedwellerclub.com/
Psychology Today: Surviving Quarantine with a Smile: Claire's survival guide https://bit.ly/article-Surviving-Quarantine-with-a-Smile
Dawn of Humanity (full video) PBS NOVA - https://bit.ly/Dawn-of-Humanity-PBS-NOVA
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Explore abrupt climate change and pandemic induced by comets and asteroids during human history at George Howard’s blog called The Cosmic Tusk. The Tusk also contains a treasure trove of scientific documents in The Cosmic Tusk Bibliography or The Complete Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis Bibliography and Publication Archive. Links to fascinating findings throughout. For many years, George has been in close touch with a group of scientists known as the Younger Dryas Boundary Team, or Comet Research Group, which studies and proposes the Younger Dryas Boundary Hypothesis, which we’re going to talk a lot about here very soon.
At the Tusk and during this episode, you can find out about topics like what a Cosmic Tusk actually is, the recent findings of a cosmic impact at ancient Abu Hureyra, the mysterious and impressive Carolina Bays, the implications of the discovery of the Hiawatha Crater under an ice sheet in Greenland, and we even touch on infectious microbes inside cosmic dust collected from the OUTSIDE surface of Space Station windows. Yeah, links are in the show notes for your further exploration. Thanks for listening, subscribe if you haven’t already, and...for a little context, we recorded this a couple of months ago, when life was still relatively normal, despite the knowing that coronavirus impacts, pardon the pun, were on the way. You’ll also hear some curious audio sounds when I talk, in the early part of the episode which I minimized as much as possible while keeping all of the fun stuff. I think you’re going to enjoy hearing about all of this I mentioned earlier. So which one should we start with?
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The Cosmic Tusk - Exploring abrupt climate change and pandemic induced by comets and asteroids during human history. Is there a Cosmic Tusk?
The Cosmic Tusk Bibliography: The Complete Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis Bibliography and Publication Archive
Stunning LIDAR image of the Carolina bays
Infectious microbes inside cosmic dust collected from OUTSIDE surface of Space Station windows
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Robert Cobbold is the founding editor of Conscious Evolution, a website, blog and podcast aiming to disseminate the evolutionary worldview, and kindle an evolutionary transition. He has a BA in English Literature from Bristol University and is currently midway through a masters in Sustainable Leadership at Cumbria University.
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Rob works as program manager for the Green Schools Project and has spent the past three years giving assemblies and workshops in schools with the aim of inspiring and equipping young people to take action on climate change and other social issues.
He is also a Director of Earfh, a new social network that’s in development, which aims to make it easy, fun, and rewarding for people to do good.
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Rob on Twitter: @EvoConscious
Conscious Evolution website
Earfh.com
“Our little blue boat” medium article written by Rob Cobbold, Conscious Evolution
Game Theory
IONS - Dean Radin
John Bunzl Simpol - the Simultaneous Policy
Open Credit Network - Matthew Slater
Positive Money - MAKING MONEY AND BANKING WORK FOR SOCIETY
The Astounding, Astonishing Tavares Brothers
Ken Wilber - Introduction to the Integral Approach
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Daniel Thorson, host of Emerge podcast, and I recorded our first episode together about a year ago and at that time he was preparing to move to the Monastic Academy, which is a training center dedicated to creating wise, powerful, and loving leaders who are an unstoppable force for social and environmental peace on Earth.
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In this conversation Daniel and I get into how living and working there affects his life, as well as the people around him; the sense of community and purpose…we explore many topics surrounding the concept of sense making; the process of our “making sense” of the complexity of our modern world and how that can lead to a sense of purpose, or not.
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Links and References:
Monastic Academy
Emerge Podcast with Daniel Thorson
“Global economy could endure disaster for a week”
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Over the previous 2 episodes we talked about Electromagnetic radiation effects on biology, and the true cost of the embodied energy of the internet. This is the 3rd installment of conversations with author Katie Singer. Today we’re going to go into dealing with this awareness on a personal level, what we can do ourselves, and how we can adapt our behavior in light of this information.
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Katie Singer is the author of An Electronic Silent Spring
http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/
https://www.ourweb.tech
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Links and References:
5G Coming to Your Neighborhood? Here's what you need to know
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/sharon-buccino/5g-coming-your-neighborhood
IRREGULATORS vs. FCC: Exposing and prosecuting a vast, illegal financial scandal behind 5G
https://takebackyourpower.net/irregulators-vs-fcc-interview/
IRREGULATORS vs. FCC: The Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWh3TgCfmaw
Your Netflix habit uses more energy than your fridge
https://www.salon.com/2013/08/19/your_netflix_habit_uses_more_energy_than_your_fridge/
Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/506466/given-tablets-but-no-teachers-ethiopian-children-teach-themselves/
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“If people remain unaware, in the illusion of the simplicity of sending an email, then there isn’t really a way to move forward until Nature imposes limits on us”
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Where do we get these wonderful toys? What are the hidden costs of the Internet? How do we get silicon wafers for electronics manufacturing?
And while we’re at it, how are we able to download podcasts for free? Or is it free? What is the true cost?
Katie Singer is the author of An Electronic Silent Spring
http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/
https://www.ourweb.tech
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Links and References:
Get informed about the true costs of using a smartphone
http://www.ourweb.tech/campaign/
Reassembling Rubbish: Worlding Electronic Waste by Josh Lepawsky
https://www.amazon.com/Reassembling-Rubbish-Worlding-Electronic-Waste/dp/0262535335
Heather White’s award winning film “Complicit” about workers poisoned by benzene and n-hexane
http://www.complicitfilm.org/
Our Web of Inconvenient Truths - Nov 2019 Newsletter
https://www.ourweb.tech/november-2019-newsletter/
Modern Slavery and Your Devices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDNfOXBFLA&feature=share
On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology: Trends to 2030
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/6/1/117
The Campaign to Reduce Our Internet Footprint
www.ourweb.tech/campaign
Why do we burn coal and trees to make solar panels?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335083312_Why_do_we_burn_coal_and_trees_to_make_solar_panels
On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology: Trends to 2030
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/6/1/117
Limits to Growth by Donella H. Meadows
https://www.amazon.com/Limits-Growth-Donella-H-Meadows/dp/193149858X
Our Web of InconvenientTruths
https://www.ourweb.tech/stellanatura2020
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“EMF stands for electromagnetic fields. All living creatures need the Earth’s EMFs in order to navigate, digest food, reproduce and more. Human-made EMFs emitted by electronic technologies can interfere with and harm living creatures’ basic functioning.”
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Katie Singer’s book, An Electronic Silent Spring “focuses on how mobile phones and Wi-Fi affect children and how wireless technologies can interfere with medical implants like insulin pumps, cardiac pacemakers and deep brain stimulators.”
“An Electronic Silent Spring also offers an extensive solutions section for policy makers, telecom and utility companies, schools, civic groups and individuals who want emf solutions and protection for emf.”
Katie’s websites:
http://www.electronicsilentspring.com/
https://www.ourweb.tech
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THE BIOINITIATIVE REPORT 2012 - A Rationale for Biologically-based Public Exposure Standards for Electromagnetic Fields (ELF and RF) https://bioinitiative.org/
BEES, BIRDS AND MANKIND Destroying Nature by ‘Electrosmog’ - Ulrich Warnke https://ecfsapi.fcc.gov/file/7521097894.pdf
Sebastopol, CA: Consider The Plights of Those Living At An Attractive and Well-Managed Affordable Housing Project — 250 to 500 feet from a Macro Cell Tower https://scientists4wiredtech.com/sebastopol/
Electromagnetic Radiation Safety - Joel M. Moskowitz, Ph.D.
https://www.saferemr.com/
National Toxicology Program releases final reports on rat and mouse studies of radio frequency radiation like that used in 2G and 3G cell phone technologies https://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2018/november1/index.cfm
National Toxicology Program: Cell Phone Radio Frequency Radiation
https://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/whatwestudy/topics/cellphones/index.html
For more than 35 years, Microwave News has been reporting on the potential health and environmental impacts of electromagnetic fields and radiation. We are widely recognized as a fair and objective source of information on this controversial subject. https://microwavenews.com/about-us
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Robert Foss is the Director of Immigration Legal Services Division at the International Institute of Los Angeles.
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"Well I think in general, it's interesting to parse the word ecstasis, ecstacy. And ecstasis to stand outside oneself. So it's a kind of, it's an altered state of consciousness, it's a kind of transcendence...but it's also a connection, some sort of realization that on some deep level, one is not alone." /11:37
Supreme Court Cases Referenced
The Cherokee Cases were a trio of cases before the Marshall Court:
United States v. Schooner Amistad, 40 U.S. (15 Pet.) 518 (1841).
Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. (19 How.) 393 (1857)
In re Ah Fong, 1 F. Cas. 213, 216 (1874) ("we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that much of what was formerly said upon the power of the state in this respect, grew out of the necessity which the southern states, in which the institution of slavery existed, felt of excluding free negroes from their limits.").
Fong Yue Ting v. United States, 149 U.S. 698 (1893)
Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 (1944)
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This conversation isn’t so much about the specifics of politics, but more about the nature of leaving the “Cult of Trump” and welcoming others to do the same.
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David Weissman was born in New York and served in the US Army for 13 years, with two deployments to Afghanistan. He is a former Republican and left MAGA and ended his support for Trump. He joined the Democratic party now fighting for the rights of others.
Follow David on Twitter https://twitter.com/davidmweissman
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